The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children

by Alison Gopnik

Book Overview

One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of good parenting

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call parenting is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374229708
• ISBN13: 9780374229702
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

a Grandma wrote this

Although this book offered some great insights, in many ways it could be summed up as a book about “free-style parenting from the perspective of a grandma”. The author uses a lot of her personal experiences around her own children, but much around her grandchildren too. I lost interest.